White Belt Jointlock Technique Videos

[Jointlock]

I have been tasked with creating videos of our entire curriculum. I created 2 test videos to see how they looked. I recently got a better digital camera so I will be redoing these. Just thought I'd post them here so you guys could take a look. Let me know what you think.

The 2 files are OutsideJointlocks.avi and InsideJointlocks.avi.

There are also videos of the Taekwondo forms that we practice.

http://shinkoohapkido.com/videos/

They are decent sized files so you may want to right click and Save Target As.

[Adam Willington]

Had a look at the outside wrist locks. Looks like a good video, though one criticism - what is with the 'shhh' 'woosh' noises you are making when applying the techniques? It's really distracting!

[klaasb]

If this is people from your school to learn from, I would do some more vocal explanation and show close-ups of the techniques.
When explaining the technique, film the technique from a closer distance. Details really upclose.

What I miss in the techniques is any form of unbalancing of the opponent.

[Jointlock]

Had a look at the outside wrist locks. Looks like a good video, though one criticism - what is with the 'shhh' 'woosh' noises you are making when applying the techniques? It's really distracting!

Breath Control. Our objective is to match the breathing with the technique.


If this is people from your school to learn from, I would do some more vocal explanation and show close-ups of the techniques.
When explaining the technique, film the technique from a closer distance. Details really up close.

What I miss in the techniques is any form of unbalancing of the opponent.

Actually these are not meant to learn from but as a review or a catalog for students who already know the material. I thought about doing it that way, and I have made videos like that in the past. But, in the end it would be to time consuming for the whole curriculum. Plus I'd rather have my students learn in class.

As for unbalancing, we do not stress it. We try to be as direct as possible with our jointlocks. The white belt techniques are done from a static wrist grab as a base. However, if the opponent pulls or pushes then you use a technique that best flows with their attack.

I would be interested to see what you mean by unbalancing with some of those techniques. Do you mean pull and push them until you can generate momentum in a direction and then perform the lock. Could you explain maybe using the first technique, we call it armbar, how you would unbalance someone before performing the technique? I am very curious.

Thanks for checking out the videos and the criticism.

[mixmastersenior]

Enjoyed the videos very much. I am assuming you are not trying to teach a novice with these, but rather provide a vidoe catalog for your current students. In that function, I think you are right on target.

[klaasb]

Just like mixmastersenior said, if it is a technique catalogue, forget about what I said about explaining the technique. And of course nothing beats learning things in class, hands on.

About unbalancing.
When you go straight for the technique you probably need physical strength, especially when dealing with a bigger stronger opponent. Now correct me if I am wrong, but I always tought that hapkido was all about not using any strength.
In the case of the armbar, when you go directly for the technique, bring your arm around to your outside, you are probably working against your opponent's power (swimming upstream). If you would bring it to the inside first, using his energy and thus unbalancing him, you can then easily bring it around and put on the armbar.
Also when applying the armbar, don't forget to keep your opponent unbalanced. Especially with the armbar, a stronger and bigger opponent, will have little trouble getting up again. Even when you are using a lot of force (which wouldn't make it hapkido anymore) to keep him down.

But than again, not the stuff you would tell a white belt student anyway.

[Jointlock]

About unbalancing.
When you go straight for the technique you probably need physical strength, especially when dealing with a bigger stronger opponent. Now correct me if I am wrong, but I always tought that hapkido was all about not using any strength.
In the case of the armbar, when you go directly for the technique, bring your arm around to your outside, you are probably working against your opponent's power (swimming upstream). If you would bring it to the inside first, using his energy and thus unbalancing him, you can then easily bring it around and put on the armbar.


Okay, now I know what you mean. I have learned and teach this, I refer to it more as faking than unbalancing. However I think it is one of many ways to get into a jointlock and that is why I don't teach it to be exclusively with every technique.

Personally I believe that when someone grabs you they already have an agenda and they are trying to impose that agenda on you. No one is going to come up and stand toe to toe and just grab you. They will probably grab you and try to pull you somewhere or grab and punch or knee you. I see where unbalancing can be used sometimes but not in all cases.

I emphasize to respond to the opponents attack, so whatever direction they try to pull or push you in, the student has learned a technique that corresponds to that movement. So if the technique flows with the opponents attack, we are not relying on our strength. If it ends up being more of a static position or their momentum stops then unbalancing is needed.

It could be that I have misunderstood what you meant by unbalancing, so I hope I wasn't too presumptuous. I think we are after the same goals and I agree with everything you said. Relying on strength is not the proper way to employ Hapkido.